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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Hi everyone! I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving. I took some time off from my studio but I was itching to get back to painting. I found a beautiful photo on Pinterest that inspired me to create this lovely lady.

In case you haven't noticed, I love gypsies, hippies and all free spirits so they're a favorite subject for me. I even tell my kids that I was a gypsy in a past life, lol.

The majority of the background is a thin book text wrapping paper along with scraps of patterned papers. Then as usual, I sketched out my focal image.

She came together nicely. I kinda wonder if I should have left her color like this. What do you think? Do you like this better than the darker/colorful hair in the finished piece?

No gypsy would be complete without beautiful jewelry. So next I added tons of gold trim, bangles and necklaces.

With her done, I added warm tones to the background and beautiful flowers. I was really loving the piece at this point but I really wanted to add a sentiment.

I found the perfect quote:

She's a Dreamer, a doer, a thinker. She sees possibility Everywhere and in Everything.

So what do you think?! I love her and I hope you do too!!

Here is a closer look at the background and the flowers. You can see the book text wrapping paper and beautiful zentanglish stamped flowers/flourishes behind the painted flowers.

Close up look at her ;D

This canvas is 16x12". I'll be adding it to my Etsy shop, LittleHoneyBeeStudio tomorrow. Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you've enjoyed your visit! Until next time!!

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About Me

I'm a fulltime mom of three handsome boys, 27, 24 and 11. My husband likes to joke that what happens in Vegas DOESN'T stay in Vegas, lol. I'm also a grandma to two adorable grand babies.
When I'm not busy taking care of our home, family and dogs, I provide administrative and accounting support for my husband's business. In between all that, I try to carve out a little time for art and scrapbooking.